Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning has been reviewed just once.
Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning (2025) - 4/10
Let's be straight from the off; this film is too long. And even so, the first hour is rushed. They probably should have made it two films. But I hate when they do that, so maybe not. The first half is an editing disasterclass as they switch from scene to scene to scene at alarming speed. I'm pretty sure I spent the second half of the film recovering from the whiplash I'd received during the first half. Maybe if I'd eaten an entire bowl of some of that extra-strong highly caffeinated coffee that comes in bags and gets advertised on those Bro Podcasts beforehand, I've have kept up, but I doubt it. It's slows marginally in the second half but then it just keeps going. And going. It’s exactly what you expect a Mission Impossible film to be, but longer. Cruise does his trademark run, of course, but why run for two minutes when you can run for ten? At one point he tries to chase down a plane for Christ's sake. With a bad guy that looks like César Millán’s demented twin brother and an entire squadron of gravely-voiced military guys who simply have to wear shirt and tie to hold their vocal cords in place, it certainly hits many of the action movie tropes. But I left feeling less like I'd experienced an action movie and instead that I'd completed some extreme endurance test. They do fit in a decent Hayley Atwell down-blouse, though, so, there's that.